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Travel Trailers Japan has reversed its opposition to bowhead whaling by Russian and Alaskan Eskimos, likely clearing the way for native communities all over America's Arctic coast to continue subsistence hunting.

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Travel Agency At a meeting of the International Whaling Commission last month, Japan had blocked the renewal of an aboriginal exemption to the 16-year-old worldwide hunting moratorium.

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Last Minute Travel The move came after the United States refused to support Japan's request that its coastal villages be allowed to hunt 50 minke whales each year--in addition to the hundreds that nation already takes for purported scientific purposes. "We decided to rephrase our position," Noboyuki Yagi, a spokesman for the Japanese Embassy in Washington, said Monday.

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Aloha Airlines Japan will back an Alaska whaling quota if the U.S. can schedule an interim commission vote this year, Yagi said. But, he cautioned, "if the U.S. casts a no vote for Japan in April or May [2003], then we may have to talk about it again."

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Travel Agent Rolland Schmitten, head of the U.S. delegation, called Japan's change of heart a "very encouraging sign.... Obviously, our goal will be to support the native hunters, both Russian and Alaskan, and to support keeping this quota under the IWC framework."

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Travel Agents U.S. officials were considering how best to conduct a new commission vote; the options include a vote by mail or a special inter-sessional gathering.

Discount Airfares It may also be possible to bring the matter up during an October meeting of whaling commissioners already scheduled on another issue, Schmitten said.

Travel Deals Under the aboriginal whaling exemption, Alaskan natives have been allowed in recent years to hunt 67 bowhead whales annually.

Air Fares While the species has been considered endangered around the world, scientific studies have shown that the bowhead population is healthy in the Alaskan Arctic--reproducing at a rate of 3.2% a year.

Travel Insurance Alaskan whalers on Monday greeted Japan's new expression of support with caution. "I'm somewhat relieved, but still skeptical," said Edward Itta, vice chairman of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. "There are some caveats there."

Travel State Gov Dr. Michael Tillman, another member of the U.S. delegation to the IWC, was scheduled to meet with the whalers Monday night in Barrow, Alaska, to brief them on the issue.

Travel Trailer The U.S. has opposed Japan's request to hunt the minke whales because of the commercial nature of the hunts.

Ata Airlines The Japanese villagers would be allowed to operate from commercial vessels using whale cannons; Alaskan natives use small sealskin boats and hand-held harpoons for their initial strikes, then follow up withtraditional guns and motorized skiffs.

Travel Agencies In addition, some of the Japanese whale meat would be sold commercially, while the Alaskans use their take strictly for their own subsistence.

Travel Guide Yagi said Japan has filed its application as a limited resumption of commercial whaling but considers it a traditional hunt in villages with long, cultural histories of coastal minke whaling.

Time Travel "No. 1, the coastal minke whaling has been conducted in a very limited number of places ... in many cases remote places from a city," Yagi said.

Travel Lodge "No. 2, the local economy has been heavily dependent on coastal whaling.

Lowest Airfares "Three, there is a certain, nonmonetary transaction of the whale meat in that particular coastal whaling, which is very different from huge-scale, industrial whaling.

China Airlines "The first catch of the season is usually devoted to shrines, and [given] to local authorities to distribute to local people."

Travel Com By Kim Murphy
Los Angeles Times - 6/25/2002

Topic: Whales

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